====== Ispell (command-line spell-checking) ======

> In english.zip you find four different english variants of ISPELL
> dictionaries with one common affix file (english.aff):
>   english/american.med+
>   english/american.xlg
>   english/british.med+
>   english/british.xlg
>   english/english.aff
> 
> They are created with ispell-3.1.20 on a SGI UNIX box. The med+
> versions does contain extra words from a british dictionary
> (british.med+) or the equivalent american version (american.med+).
> The xlg versions are extra large versions. It is recommended to
> select one of the med+ versions as your default and to select the
> xlg versions via the `-d US-xlg' or `-d UK-xlg' ispell flags.
> 
> Suppose we choose for the british.med+ as our default for english. Then
> you can build all hash files with (buildhash.exe should be in your PATH):
> 
> <code bash>
cd english
buildhash british.med+  english.aff c:\ispell\lib\english.hash
buildhash american.med+ english.aff c:\ispell\lib\american.hash
buildhash british.xlg   english.aff c:\ispell\lib\UK-xlg.hash
buildhash american.xlg  english.aff c:\ispell\lib\US-xlg.hash
</code>
> For ispell insiders the value of LANGUAGES (normally one line,
> here broken up for readability) and MASTERHASH in local.h used to
> generate above compressed wordlists are:
> #define MASTERHASH "britishmed+.hash"
> #define LANGUAGES
> "{british,MASTERDICTS=british.med+,HASHFILES=britishmed+.hash,
>           EXTRADICT=/usr/local/dict/words /usr/local/dict/british}
>  {british,MASTERDICTS=british.xlg,HASHFILES=britishxlg.hash,EXTRADICT=}
>  {american,MASTERDICTS=american.med+,HASHFILES=americanmed+.hash,
>           EXTRADICT=/usr/local/dict/words /usr/local/dict/american}
>  {american,MASTERDICTS=american.xlg,HASHFILES=americanxlg.hash,EXTRADICT=}
>  {nederlands,EXTRADICT=/usr/local/dict/woorden}"
> 
> --pt
> 19 Febr. 1998

{{:slackware:ispell-english.zip|Ispell British and American dictionaries}}

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